From: Eric S. Raymond Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:30:38 +0000 (-0500) Subject: New section on why to prefer SRC over bare RCS. X-Git-Tag: 0.6~24 X-Git-Url: http://thyrsus.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2672ef46ce38572c03bff1d6f8b14771b1856c32;p=src.git New section on why to prefer SRC over bare RCS. --- diff --git a/FAQ.asc b/FAQ.asc index 496e06d..faeb1d1 100644 --- a/FAQ.asc +++ b/FAQ.asc @@ -74,6 +74,19 @@ a public https://gitorious.org/src-vcs/[Git repository]. SRC has real users (that is, other than the author) since day two after it as announced, but not for projects like itself. +[[bare-rcs]] +== I still use plain RCS for single files. Why move to SRC? == + +Because process friction matters, even to hackers as ancient as +you and the author of RCS. Bare RCS's interface is pretty awful; +a competently-designed UI can reduce that friction considerably. +Try it and see. + +If you use RCS through Emacs's VC mode, you already have a pretty +good wrapper around it...which, as it happens, the author of RCS +also wrote. SRC has a couple of advantages over VC-RCS - running +lockless and better scriptability are the main ones. + [[beginners-vcs]] == Is SRC a good system on which to learn about version control? == @@ -167,6 +180,4 @@ encapsulated in a class... [[ack]] == Acknowledgments == -Nearly all of this FAQ, except <> -and <>, was written by -Mike Swanson, aka chungy. +Most of this FAQ was originally written by Mike Swanson, aka chungy.